Bill Moyers and Michael Win****p write for Truthout on the financial
services
and real estate industries that silence Congress and the White House; in
talks
with Bush, al-Maliki concedes on US withdrawal deadline; Al Gore shakes up
energy debate and challenges America; Peter W. Dickson writes on US
policy's
falling fig leaf; environmentalists file lawsuit against federal
government
and Florida state to halt toxic blooms of blue-green algae; Ellen Goodman
writes about "our very own no-wage economy"; Rwandans use university
beauty
pageants to advance gender equality and foster national unity; US cancels
HIV
vaccine trial; judge says current courts and politicians threaten voting
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Moyers and Win****p | Mother's Milk of Politics Turns Sour
http://www.truthout.org/article/mothers-milk-politics-turns-sour
Bill Moyers and Michael Win****p write for Truthout: "We just don't seem
able
to see or accept the fact that money drives policy. It's no wonder that
Congress and the White House have been looking the other way as the
predators
picked the pockets of unsuspecting debtors. Mega banking and investment
firms
have been some of the biggest providers of the cash vital to keeping
in***bents in office. There isn't much appetite for biting - or regulating
-
the manicured hand that feeds them."
Maliki Concedes: No US Withdrawal Deadline
http://www.truthout.org/article/maliki-concedes-no-us-withdrawal-deadline
Agence France-Presse re****ts on the latest agreement between US President
George W. Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki: "The talks have
sputtered over the Baghdad government's demands for a timetable for US
troops
to withdraw as well as Wa****ngton's demands that its soldiers and other
staff
be immune from Iraqi prosecution."
Al Gore Lays Down Green Challenge to America
http://www.truthout.org/article/al-gore-lays-down-green-challenge-america
Zachary Coile for The San Francisco Chronicle: "Former Vice President Al
Gore,
seeking to shake up an energy debate that is focused mostly on drilling,
challenged the United States to ****ft its entire electricity sector to
carbon-free wind, solar and geothermal power within 10 years, and use that
power to fuel a new fleet of electric vehicles."
Peter W. Dickson | Iraq's Falling Fig Leaf
http://www.truthout.org/article/iraqs-falling-fig-leaf
Peter W. Dickson writes for Consortium News: "As these fig leaves drop to
the
ground, they are exposing raw geo-strategic objectives that were present
in
the original calculations of Republican foreign policy experts going back
to
the early 1990s, a desire for a firm US foothold in the Middle East to
protect
the West's access to oil and to defend the state of Israel from, then,
primarily its Arab enemies."
Federal Lawsuit Filed to Halt Florida's Toxic Algae Blooms
http://www.truthout.org/article/federal-lawsuit-filed-halt-floridas-toxic-algae-blooms
Environmental News Service: "Five environmental groups filed a lawsuit
Friday
to compel the federal government and the state of Florida to set numeric
limits on the excess nutrients which trigger harmful blooms of blue-green
algae."
Ellen Goodman | The Do-It-Yourself Economy
http://www.truthout.org/article/the-do-it-yourself-economy
Ellen Goodman, Truthdig.com: "For every task ****pped abroad by a
cor****ation,
isn't there another one sloughed off onto that domestic loser, the
consumer?
For every job that's going to a low-wage economy, isn't there another
going
into our very own no-wage economy?"
From Noses to Hips, Rwandans Start to Redefine Beauty
http://www.truthout.org/article/from-noses-hips-rwandans-start-redefine-beauty
Jina Moore, The Christian Science Monitor: "As the nation moves beyond the
tragic events of 1994, traditional standards of Rwandan beauty may be
changing
- or at least are being challenged."
Trial for Vaccine Against HIV Is Canceled
http://www.truthout.org/article/trial-vaccine-against-hiv-is-canceled
Lawrence K. Altman, The New York Times: "Plans for a large human trial of
a
promising government-developed HIV vaccine in the United States were
canceled
Thursday because a top federal official said scientists realized that they
did
not know enough about how HIV vaccines and the immune system interact."
Judge: Vote Must Be Defended
http://www.truthout.org/article/judge-vote-must-be-defended
Denise Smith Amos, The Cincinnati Enquirer: "For retired US Court of
Appeals
Judge Nathaniel Jones, the fight for voting rights isn't history - it's
today's challenge. Jones spoke Monday at a crowded NAACP luncheon about
the
late Clarence Mitchell Jr., a personal friend and NAACP leader who for
decades
lobbied for African-Americans' access to the ballot box."
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